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David Sedaris returns with his first new collection of personal essays since the bestselling Calypso.

What could be a more tempting Christmas gift than a compendium of David Sedaris's best stories, selected by the author himself? From a spectacular career spanning almost three decades, these stories have become modern classics and are now for the first time collected in one volume.For more than twenty-five years, David Sedaris has been carving out a unique literary space, virtually creating his own genre. A Sedaris story may seem confessional,...

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The American humorist, author, and radio contributor shares his most memorable work in a collection of stories and essays that feature him shopping for rare taxidermy, hitchhiking with a quadriplegic, and hand-feeding a carnivorous bird.

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Compared by The New Yorker to Twain and Hawthorne, David Sedaris has become one of the best-loved humorists of our time, writing with perfect pitch about the ludicrousness of our age. His new collection features his strongest work yet. His recent move to Paris inspired several classic tales, including the title story, "Me Talk Pretty One Day", about his hilarious attempts to learn French. His family is another source of humor, inspiring "You C...

David Sedaris' first collection of comic stories and essays. Performed by the author and his sister Amy, this program is described by the "New York Post" as "a nuclear barrage of humor you could never replicate by reading this material on your own". Abridged. 3 CDs.

Sedaris's beloved holiday collection is new again with six more pieces, including a never-before-published story. Along with such favorites as the diaries of a Macy's elf and the annals of two very competitive families, are Sedaris's tales of tardy trick-or-treaters and the difficulties of explaining the Easter Bunny to the French.

For more than twenty-five years, David Sedaris has been carving out a unique literary space, virtually creating his own genre. A Sedaris story may seem confessional, but is also highly attuned to the world outside. It opens our eyes to what is at absurd and moving about our daily existence. And it is almost impossible to read without laughing. Now, for the first time collected in one volume, the author brings us his funniest and most memorable...

For more than twenty-five years, David Sedaris has been carving out a unique literary space, virtually creating his own genre. A Sedaris story may seem confessional, but is also highly attuned to the world outside. It opens our eyes to what is at absurd and moving about our daily existence. And it is almost impossible to read without laughing. Now, for the first time collected in one volume, the author brings us his funniest and most memorable...

Praise for Theft by Finding, the first volume of David Sedaris's diariesThe writing here is funnier, (even) sharper . . . There isn't a dull word among these pages -- India Knight, Sunday TimesCould there be a more delightful American import than the memoirist David Sedaris? Not since the peanut butter and jelly sandwich have we inherited something so sweet and comforting yet so wickedly naughty, The TimesThis first of two volumes of his copio...

For forty years, David Sedaris has kept a diary in which he records everything that captures his attention-overheard comments, salacious gossip, soap opera plot twists, secrets confided by total strangers. These observations are the source code for his finest work, and through them he has honed his cunning, surprising sentences.Praise for Theft By Finding The writing here is funnier, (even) sharper . . . There isn't a dull word among these pag...

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The Hachette Essentials series comprises a collection of titles that are regarded as modern classics. A carefully and lovingly curated selection of distinctive, ground-breaking fiction and non-fiction titles published since 1950. Timeless. Relevant. Passionate. Unified as a series - distinctive as books. A good book is great. A great book is essential.A hilarious collection of essays from 'the premier observer of our world and its weirdnesses,...

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In questa raccolta di shortstories l'autore gioca nella neve con le sorelle, va in vacanza con la famiglia, assiste al matrimonio del fratello, scopa il pavimento di casa della sorella, dà indicazioni a un viaggiatore smarrito, mangia un hamburger, si sottopone ad un esame del sangue. Tutte cose apparentemente normali. Con questo libro di racconti David Sedaris rivela quella buona dose di assurdità che brulica sotto la superficie della vita qu...

Un libro di racconti pieno di humor caustico del celebre autore e conduttore radiofonico americano. Dalla sue eroica resistenza ai tentativi di una logopedista di correggere un difetto di pronuncia, alle spassose imprese con Victor Mancini, nano insegnante letteralmente ossessionato dai seni femminili, alle sue peripezie con la lingua francese: ogni episodio è un'occasione per le sue osservazioni a volte ciniche, a volte oltraggiose, a volte s...

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